Our Family's Journey Through Time
Thanks for dropping in to visit our family tree website. We've worked for years compiling the trees for our two families - the Maloneys and Dennehys - and its connections to our ancestors. Originally we started the tree with daisydennehy.info. Currently we have most of the tree in Australia covered and most of the Dennehy family that were born overseas prior to coming to Australia. Now it is time to delve into the Maloney family forebears in Ireland prior to John Maloney Snr. migrating to Australia in1856 with his family on the Great Tasmania. The photos on the left slider depict Maloney's Berriedale Hotel in the early years - one with fox hounds must be around 1870 and the later one was taken in 1907 and shows my grandfather, James Patrick Maloney, down the front and my father up on the verandah being held probably by his mum, Emmeline. The other photo is one me and my brother Tophe taken around 1950 - a photo studio in Launceston.
We're so pleased that you are visiting our site. This site is truly a work of love and dedication in order to tell the story of us and our ancestors. If you have something to add, please let us know. The more we can share with others the more we receive in return. Thank you again!
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.
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The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before. 'It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.' by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
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